Garment-stiffener.



PATENTED AUG. 13, 1907.

H. FEDER.

GARMENT STIFFENER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11.1903.

PATENT ()FFICE.

HARRY FEDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-STIFFENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1907.

Application filed June 11,1903. Serial No. 160,970.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY FEDER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Garment-Stiffener, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a garment stiffener, with the object in view of providing a light, durable and resilient stiffener at a comparatively low cost.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of a portion of the stiffener, partly in section, showing the parts which compose it, Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the same in the plane of the line A-A of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a view in detail showing a modified form of one element of the stiffener, Fig. 4 is a view of a piece of the stiffener cut from a long piece of the blank about the length which it is desired to use, Fig. 5 is a view of the same, showing the outside jacket or envelop slipped back from the ends for the purpose of cutting off the ends of the body portion of the stiffener to permit the outer envelop or jacket to be closed over them, and Fig. 6 shows the stiffener completed for use with the outer envelop or jacket closed over the ends of the body portion.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, I have chosen to illustrate my invention as a stiffener composed of two elements each made up of three parts, viz; a horn or bone strand 1 and two paper strands 2 and 3, the horn or bone strand 1 being located between the two paper strands 3. The parts which make up each of the elements, as, for example, the parts 1, 2, 3, are bound together by a suitable winding 4 and these two elements denoted, respectively, by 5 and 6 are then placed edge to edge and secured in position by means of a jacket 7 tightly braided thereon.

The structure thus formed is provided with corded edges by introducing cords or strands, preferably paper cords, denoted, respectively, by 8 and 9 along the opposite edges of the jacket 7, binding the said cords or strands 8 and 9 in position by one or more of the threads 10 which form a part of the braided jacket. This serves to reduce the thickness of the opposite edges of the body portion of the stiffener as clearly indicated in Fig.2, giving it a finish which is both agreeable to the eye and of utility in securing it to the garment.

The stiffener as thus formed may be used alone, or, in the preferred form for general use, I further provide the body portion, as thus far described, with an outer jacket or envelop l1 quite snugly braided thereon but capable of being slipped on the body portion for purposes which will hereinafter appear. This outer jacket or envelop 11 is preferably provided with purled edges 12 and 13 to give it a finished and attractive appearance.

It is intended to manufacture the stiffener in long lengths to be cut up by the user into such short lengths as may be desired. One of these lengths is shown in Fig. 4 as cut from the blank and in Fig. 5 the outer envelop or jacket 11 is shown slipped back at the opposite ends to expose a portion of the body of the stiffener and the dotted lines 14, 15, indicate lines of cut where the ends of the body may be cut off in order to leave the outer envelop or jacket 11 sufficiently long to be drawn back over the ends of the body and there united by sewing, as shown at 16, 17, Fig. 6, to entirely inclose' the body of the stiffener within its outer envelop or jacket.

In Fig. 3 I have represented an element denoted, as

a whole, by 18, made up of three paper strands denoted by 19, 20, 21, instead of bone or horn and paper as represented in Figs. 1 and 2.

The introduction of more or less of the paper strands with the horn strands is relied upon to vary the lightness and suppleness of the stiffener and to vary the cost of the same to suit the demands and purposes to which the stiffener is to be used.

By braiding the jackets onto the stiffener, I am enabled to produce the double jacketed stiffener in such a manner as to insure a nice fit of the outer envelop or jacket to the body of the stiffener while, at the same time, permitting it to slip thereon for the purposes indicated.

The corded edges on the body of the stiffener aside from the function of gradually thinning the opposite edges of the stiffener and forming an additional space for stitching if necessary, also serve to true up or even any unintentional slight unevenness which may occur in uniting the elements by their braided jacket and thus enhance the attractiveness of the stiffener.

It is obvious that the number of elements may be in creased or diminished at pleasure without departing I from the spirit and scope of my invention.

What I claim isz- 1. A garment stiffener composed of resilient strands, a jacket embracing the strands and strands exterior to the jacket connected to the jacket at the opposite edges thereof.

2. A garment stiffener composed of resilient strands, a

braided jacket enveloping the strands and additional strands exterior to the body of the braided jacket, the

said exterior strands being held in position by the said braided jacket.

3. A garment stiffener comprising resilient strands, a braided jacket enveloping the strands, the said jacket being provided with corded edges and a second braided jacket embracing the first-named jacket and having a sliding movement relative thereto.

4. A garment stiffener comprising resilient strands, a braided jacket closely embracing the strands, the said jacket being provided with corded edges and a second braided jacket enveloping the first-named jacket and pro vided with purled edges.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two witnesses, this 2nd day of June 1903.

HARRY FEDIUR.

Witnesses FREDK. HAYNES, C. S. SUNDGREN. 

